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Is it possible to have duplicate ip addresses for two serial interfaces that belong to the same router?

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Question added by Abdullah Odibat , Software Developer (Java) , Capella Solutions
Date Posted: 2013/06/12
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by Deleted user

Yes, duplicate ip addresses are allowed on serial interfaces.
It is a more efficient way of bundling links together (ie.
MLPPP) and also a better way to preserve address space.
Change the encapsulation from the default HDLC to PPP in order to assign duplicate ip addresses.
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_q_and_a_item09186a008012d8f7.shtml#qa15a

Aliye Mohammed Ensene
by Aliye Mohammed Ensene , Senior Network Administration Engineer , ERCA

First of all why you need to do that.
it is possible but the router will be confused during building routing table and selecting best path to forward the packet.
so it is better to use different ip addresses for each interface on the router.

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